Event: Pizza Talk: "Changing Configuration of Porcelain Production in Jingdezhen: Excavation of the Luomaqiao Kiln Site"

Speaker: Dr. Yanjun Weng, Assistant Professor, Jingdezhen University

Dr. Weng will speak about his current archaeological excavation project at the Luomaqiao Kiln site in Jingdezhen, a city with more than 1,000 years of continuous ceramic industry history. This lecture will explore the changing configuration of porcelain production along the long timeline as well as the corresponding distribution of products to royal needs, government divisions, and civilian markets of both domestic China and overseas.

Yanjun Weng obtained his PhD in archaeology in 2017 from Peking University and has been active on field works of Chinese ceramic archaeology since 2010. Before that, he received master's and undergraduate's degrees in economics and international trade.